• Ice hockey fans pose for a photograph with an Olympic bear mascot during the women’s preliminary hockey game between USA and Finland. Jim Young/Reuters
    Ice hockey fans pose for a photograph with an Olympic bear mascot during the women’s preliminary hockey game between USA and Finland. Jim Young/Reuters
  • Olympic mascot The Hare pictured before the start of the Short Track competitions in the Iceberg Skating Palace. Barbara Walton/EPA
    Olympic mascot The Hare pictured before the start of the Short Track competitions in the Iceberg Skating Palace. Barbara Walton/EPA

Sport

In pictures: Mascots light up Sochi Games

Julie Nicholson

February 12, 2014

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The National

takes a look at some of the colourful mascots - including a hare, bear, and leopard - that have been seen during the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.

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